Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add test for the new status message

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:03:30 +0530

On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 14:04 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:29:49PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to test for the "Initial commit" message in the
> > commit
> > template?
> 
> You can do "git commit --dry-run", which produces the template on
> stdout.
Thanks for the help :)

> 
> That should be good enough for our purposes here, as it's the same
> code
> that produces the text that goes into the editor template. If you
> really
> wanted to test what the editor sees, you could do something like:
> 
>   GIT_EDITOR='cat >editor-input' git commit
> 
> but I don't think it's worth the trouble.
> 
That's right. I thinks it's not worth the trouble too.